Conferinţele proiectului
Second Conference of the TYPARABIC Project
Spread the Word. Books Printed for Arabic-Speaking Christians in the 18th Century
DATES June 22–23, 2023
VENUE Gotha Research Library, University of Erfurt
REGISTRATION Thursday, June 22, 9.00 – 9.45 a.m.
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Thursday, June 22
Chair: Samuel Noble
09.45-10.30 Opening speeches: Feras Krimsti (Gotha Research Library, University of Erfurt) and Ioana Feodorov (PI, TYPARABIC project)
PANEL 1 Oriental Manuscripts and Books: Collections from the East to the West
10.30-11.10 Feras Krimsti – Gotha, Germany: Local printing in Arabic according to German travelers to the Levant in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
11.10-11.50 Joseph Moukarzel – Kaslik, Lebanon: Eighteenth century Arabic books in the USEK Library: The Khenchara Collection
11.50-12.10 Coffee break
12.10-12.50 Nino Kavtaria – Tbilisi, Georgia: Oriental printed books in the collections of the ‘K. Kekelidze’ Georgian National Centre for Manuscripts and Old Books in Tbilisi
12.50-13.30 Mircea-Gheorghe Abrudan – Cluj-Napoca, Romania: Timotei Cipariu, the first scholar of Arabic and collector of Oriental books in Transylvania
13.30-14.30 – Lunch
14.30-18.00 Hands-on session in the Gotha Research Library. Survey of the collection of rare Arabic printed books
Friday, June 23
PANEL 2 Printing Ventures: Protagonists and Architectst
Chair: Radu Dipratu
10.00-10.40 Simon Mills – Newcastle, UK: Athanasios Dabbās and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge’s Arabic Bibles
10.40-11.20 John-Paul Ghobrial – Oxford, UK: Printing between Aleppo and Rome: Evidence from the Catholic missions
11.20-11.40 Coffee break
11.40-12.20 Stefano Di Pietrantonio – UC Louvain (Belgium)/Ifpo (Beirut, Lebanon): The circulation of Athanasios III Dabbās’ Faṣāḥa between Syria and Lebanon in the eighteenth–twentieth centuries
12.20-13.00 Habib Ibrahim – Beirut, Lebanon: Sylvester of Antioch and his printing work as reflected in an eighteenth-century letter collection
13.00-14.00 – Lunch
PANEL 3 Visual Art and Aesthetic Influences
Chair: Vera Tchentsova
14.00-14.40 Oana Iacubovschi – Bucharest, Romania: The visual repertoire of Athanasios Dabbās’s printed books from Aleppo (1706–1711): Markers of cultural exchanges and personal connections
14.40-15.20 Alina Kondratiuk – Kyiv, Ukraine: Patriarchs’ and bishops’ emblems on printed books: The transfer of models from West to East
15.20-15.40 Coffee break
15.40-16.20 Anca Elisabeta Tatay – Cluj-Napoca, Romania: The transfer of Ukrainian engraving models to presses of the Romanian Principalities (eighteenth century)
16.20-17.00 David Neagu – Bucharest, Romania: Icons of the Evangelists in Armenian printed books as models for the Eastern printers
This conference is organized within the ERC-AdG-2019-TYPARABIC project which received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 883219.
First Conference of the TYPARABIC Project
For and against. Attitudes towards printing in the Ottoman capital in the 16th-18th centuries
DATES September 5–6, 2022
VENUE Library of the Holy Synod, Bucharest
REGISTRATION Monday, September 5, 9.00-9.45 a.m.
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SESSION 1 – SEPTEMBER 5
PANEL 1
Chair: Radu Dipratu
10.00-10.30 Ioana Feodorov, “18th century Arabic printing for the Arab Christians: most roads lead to Istanbul”
10.30-11.00 Orlin Sabev, “The Müteferrika press and its output: obstacles, circumvention, and repercussions”
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.00 Radu Dipratu, “Ottoman endorsements of printing in 18th-century Istanbul”
12.00-12.30 Hasan Colak, “İbrahim Müteferrika and the Ottoman intellectual culture in the early 18th century: a transcultural perspective”
12.30-15.00 – Lunch
PANEL 2
Chair: Orlin Sabev
15.00-15.30 Nil Palabiyik, “A battle of books in the 17th-Century Constantinople”
15.30-16.00 Taisiya Leber, “Hebrew printing in Early Modern Istanbul between mobility and stability”
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.00 Ovidiu Olar, “A license to print thousands of heresies and schisms. Rome and the Greek printing press at Constantinople (1627-1628)”
17.00-17.30 Mihai Țipău, “Arabic printed books in Wallachia and their Phanariot readers”
18.00 – Dinner
SESSION 2 – SEPTEMBER 6
PANEL 1
Chair: Vera Tchentsova
10.00-10.30 Doru Bădără, “The beginning of printing and print culture in the Romanian Principalities”
10.30-11.00 Carsten-Michael Walbiner, “The collection, perception, and study of Arabic incunabula from the Near East in Europe (16th – early 19th)”
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.00 Igumen Andrew Wade, “A preliminary comparison of the Horologion in Sinai Arabic 232 (13th) with the 1702 edition of Athanasios Dabbās and the earlier version of Meletios Karme”
12.00-12.30 Samuel Noble, “The Development of the Akathist Hymn in Arabic”
12.30-15.00 – Lunch
PANEL 2
Chair: Ioana Feodorov
15.00-15.30 Vera Tchentsova, “Birth of the portrait in the Orthodox realm: Representations of the individual in Greek books printed in Bucharest and Venice in the early 18th century”
15.30-16.00 Polycarp Chițulescu, “The text of the Greek and Arab Liturgikon of 1701. A comparative analysis”
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.00 Yulia Petrova, “The Forewords of the Christian Arabic books printed in Wallachia, Moldavia, and Greater Syria in the 18th century”
17.00-17.30 Fr Rami Wakim, “Patriarch Dabbās’s Gospel Books. A comparative study of his 1706 and 1708 versions of the Tetraevangelion”
18.00 – Dinner
This conference is organized within the ERC-AdG-2019-TYPARABIC project which received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 883219.